Pre/Post Assessments

Test deadlines
SRI  -- adaptive tests --
My Access -- District Test

Share lab Fugal B5/B6,  Eddington B7/B8

1st semester  -- paper tests  -- do right away
Fact and opinion  added to mastery tracker -- pretest  8/15/14  7.1
Theme and evidence  -- pretest  8/15/14
coordinate adjective  -- pretest  8/15/14

Theme
Evidence for Theme
Coordinate Adjective
Post-Test By end of 1st semester

2nd Semester
Main Idea
Evidence
Poetry
by May 16



Fact vs. Opinion

commas with coordinate adjectives

poetry       literal and figurative
Haiku powerpoint from Eve
  photography -- one shot
  details --9 words to build picture in your head    sensory detail
unit -- 5 classes -- 2 weeks

Bad poetry -- Bridge of Tay

http://www.cowboypoetry.com/mcrae.htm

serious poems
statue of liberty


6 word memoirs
epitaphs  -- gravestones
Star Spangled Banner  --- 3 verse

imagery and description in modern music
rhythm -- Jason Mraz
telling the same heartbreak story

Simile Game
The sun is like --- must be a good simile
use the answer in the next simile


coordinate adjectives:  http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/042301comcoordadj.htm
and
switch order
exceptions: building materials, colors
size, shape, color, national origin, religion, or material
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjective_order.htm

Royal order of adjectives http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-royal-order-of-adjectives/

Do ostriches steal scruptious apple cake?  Num Num tasty!
determiner
observation or opinion
size and shape
age
color
origin
materials
qualifier





Orange Crush
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/magazine/22food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

1. pretest
2. inquiry -- groups of four -- half sheet of paper
one sentence using all of royal order   or five sentences
study sentences -- order -- figure out rules
share out
3. sentences --  hold  index card
4. exit card  4 sentences


Word Roots and Affixes
aut, auto 975
cast  799
therm 490
uni 44
viv, vit 94
cred  264
pel, puls  337
pend, pens  480
spec, spect

photo
therm
cred
mot
mal
micro
semi
s, es
d, ed ing
er est
er
able
ly

derm
logy
bio
hydr
hypo
vid/vis

http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/common-core-greek-and-latinates/


ADVERBS ON TRIAL  -- pulling its weight or taking up space?
Bob swaggered arrogantly into the room.
Financially speaking, my money had just about run out.
Ms. Mason shouted loudly for his son.
Katie viciously ripped off the Band-Aid.

6 word memoir  PowerPoint 
Wordle 
could put into PowerPoint set to music